Supplementary Scores - Clarification

[sweatysock41]

Having read various posts recently where people have said that their clubs are refusing to accept supplementary scorecards I thought I would email the EGU for a clear statement. I received the following replay from James Crampton at the EGU.

"Mal,

All affiliated clubs are required to offer the facility of Supplementary Scores to their playing membership. They are not permitted to deny this to them. All members are permitted to return up to 10 Supplementary Scores per year.

Regards

James Crampton
SSS & Handicap Manager
The English Golf Union Ltd

Tel: 01526 354500
Fax: 01526 351812
Website: <http://www.englishgolfunion.org/> "

If any club affiliated to the EGU is refusing to accept supplementary cards then you can advise the EGU or use this response to point out the fact they are not complying with the regulations. I appreciate that you may want to avoid confrontation but it is your right to enter these cards.

 

[USER1999]

But do you have to declare that you are putting a supplementary card in before play, or can you just wait til you post a cracking score and then put it in? Or, failing that, can I wait until I get 10 rubbich cards, bung them in and get a shot back?

 

[sweatysock41]

You have to declare that you are putting a supplementary card in before you commence your round. The idea being that every shot then counts as it would in a medal round.

 

[Losttheplot]

Agreed, you have to declare your putting in a supplementary before the round.

Also you can only do 1 per week too. Tried and failed for 2 supplementaries in 2 days.

 

[USER1999]

A guy I work with shot a good round in a swindle, has put his card in and been cut 2.4. This is the sort of thing that annoys me. There are clearly established rules, and clubs just continue to do what ever they want.

 

[sweatysock41]

I did ask the EGU to clarify things to all affiliated clubs as it appears that there are some clubs that are flagrantly breaking the rules when it comes to maintenance of playing handicaps.

 

[Ethan]

You have to declare supplementary cards in advance, certainly, and will get 0.1 or whatever back for an NR.

Clubs are entitled to take other cards at the home club or elsewhere into account and adjust handicap accordingly. Always have been. However, the adjustment is done as a general play correction and need not exactly reflect the score relative to SSS.

 

[chrisd]

However, the adjustment is done as a general play correction and need not exactly reflect the score relative to SSS.

So Ethan, where I put a card of, say nett 67 and the CSS is 69 and I barely get a cut - if the SSS is 70 I would, as a supplementary card, get a bigger cut?



Chris

 

[sweatysock41]

You have to declare supplementary cards in advance, certainly, and will get 0.1 or whatever back for an NR.

Clubs are entitled to take other cards at the home club or elsewhere into account and adjust handicap accordingly. Always have been. However, the adjustment is done as a general play correction and need not exactly reflect the score relative to SSS.

However there is a misconception that General Play refers to Social Golf - that is not the case. The EGU clearly states that Social Golf cannot be used to adjust a CONGU Handicap.

"Guide to General Play & Annual Review[Printable version]

The Club Handicapping Committee are required under Clause 23 of the CONGU UHS to conduct a review of handicaps of all members whom it has been identified as the Home Club. This review is to be made each year prior to the 1st March in order to ensure all members with CONGU handicaps have handicaps that are reflective of their current playing ability.

Once this review has taken place handicaps should only be adjusted outside of qualifying competitions under General Play and only then under exceptional circumstances. In order to clarify the definition of Exceptional Circumstances the English Golf Union has identified that handicaps can only be adjusted under the following circumstances:

- Impaired golfing ability resulting from extended illness or injury.
- The need to correct a handicap that was allocated at an inappropriate level.
- The return of a series of good scores in Qualifying Competitions within a short timeframe by a hitherto infrequent competitor.
- A number of, probably three or more, good playing performances in Non Qualifying competitions (Better Ball and Singles match play events) by a player who otherwise may not participate with any regularity in Qualifying Competitions.

The EGU have also announced that scores returned in Mixed Foursomes, Society and Corporate events and social golf must not be used in the adjustment of a CONGU handicap."